Direct microscopy versus sputum cytology analysis and bleach sedimentation for diagnosis of tuberculosis: a prospective diagnostic study

BACKGROUND: Diagnostic options for pulmonary tuberculosis in resource-poor settings are commonly limited to smear microscopy. We investigated whether bleach concentration by sedimentation and sputum cytology analysis (SCA) increased the positivity rate of smear microscopy for smear-positive tubercul...

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Hlavní autoři: Hepple, Pamela, Nguele, Pascal, Greig, Jane, Bonnet, Maryline, Sizaire, Vinciane
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: BioMed Central 2010
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946302/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20858253
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-276
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